House
Carolingian dynasty
Frankish noble family founded by Charles Martel
- Within Karolingische periode (computed)
- Also called Carlovingians, Carolings, Karlings
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 37
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
9 children in the house
- Charles the Younger 772 CE – 811 CE
- Rotrude c. 775 CE – 810 CE
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Pepin of Italy 777 CE – 810 CE 1 child in the house
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Louis the Pious 778 CE – 840 CE 5 children in the house
- Bertha between 779 and 780 CE – after 823 CE
- Gisela 781 CE – after 800 CE
- Theodrada c. 785 CE – between 844 and 853 CE
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Drogo 801 CE – 855 CE - Hugh between 802 and 806 CE – 844 CE
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Pepin of Herstalc. 645 CE – 16 December 714 CE · Mayor of the Palace (635-714) -
Charles Martel23 August 688 CE – 22 October 741 CE · Child of Pepin of Herstal - Himiltrude8th century CE · mother of Charlemagne's first-born son Pippin the Hunchback
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Bertrada of Laon8th century CE – 12 July 783 CE · Frankish queen -
Pepin the Shortc. 715 CE – 24 September 768 CE · Child of Charles Martel -
Charlemagne2 April 748 CE – 28 January 814 CE · Child of Pepin the Short -
Carloman I751 CE – 8 December 771 CE · Child of Pepin the Short -
Gisela, Abbess of Chelles757 CE – 810 CE · Child of Pepin the Short -
Pepin the Hunchback770 CE – 811 CE · Child of Charlemagne - Charles the Younger772 CE – 4 December 811 CE · Child of Charlemagne
- Rotrudec. 775 CE – 6 June 810 CE · Child of Charlemagne
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Pepin of Italy777 CE – 8 July 810 CE · Child of Charlemagne -
Louis the Pious16 April 778 CE – 20 June 840 CE · Child of Charlemagne - Berthabetween 779 and 780 CE – after 823 CE · Child of Charlemagne
- Gisela781 CE – after 800 CE · Child of Charlemagne
- Theodradac. 785 CE – between 844 and 853 CE · Child of Charlemagne
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Lothair I795 CE – 29 September 855 CE · Child of Louis the Pious -
Pepin I of Aquitainec. 797 CE – 13 December 838 CE · Child of Louis the Pious
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Bernard of Italyc. 797 CE – 17 April 818 CE · Child of Pepin of Italy -
Drogo17 June 801 CE – 8 December 855 CE · Child of Charlemagne - Ratold of Italy9th century CE – after 896 CE · Child of Arnulf of Carinthia
- Hughbetween 802 and 806 CE – 14 June 844 CE · Child of Charlemagne
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Louis the Germanc. 806 CE – 28 August 876 CE · Child of Louis the Pious -
Gisela9th century CE · Child of Louis the Pious -
Charles the Bald13 June 823 CE – 6 October 877 CE · Child of Louis the Pious -
Louis II of Italy1 November 825 CE – 12 August 875 CE · Child of Lothair I -
Carloman of Bavariac. 830 CE – 22 September 880 CE · Child of Louis the German -
Lothair II of Lotharingia835 CE – 8 August 869 CE · Child of Lothair I -
Louis III the Youngerc. 835 CE – 20 January 882 CE · Child of Louis the German -
Charles the Fat839 CE – 13 January 888 CE · Child of Louis the German - Charles of Provence845 CE – 25 January 863 CE · Child of Lothair I
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Arnulf of Carinthiac. 850 CE – 8 December 899 CE · Child of Carloman of Bavaria - Ermengard of Italybetween 852 and 855 CE – 896 CE · Child of Louis II of Italy
- Hugh, Duke of Alsacebetween 855 and 860 CE – after 895 CE · Child of Lothair II of Lotharingia
- Bertha of Lotharingiac. 863 CE – 8 March 925 CE · Child of Lothair II of Lotharingia
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Louis the ChildJuly 893 CE – 29 September 911 CE · Child of Arnulf of Carinthia - ChrothildisPeerage person ID=672394
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
King of Franks
- 10 holders
- 1 overlap
- 2 gaps
- 5 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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November 751 CE – 24 September 768 CE Pepin the Short King of the Franks from 751 to 768 -
9 October 768 CE – 28 January 814 CE Charlemagne king of Franks, regarded as the first Holy Roman Emperor (747–814) (742-814) -
Overlap held at the same time as Charlemagne
9 October 768 CE – 4 December 771 CE Carloman I King of the Franks (r. 768–771) -
Gap about 43 years before the next in this house
28 January 814 CE – 20 June 840 CE Louis the Pious King of the Franks -
Gap about 15 years before the next in this house
855 CE – 869 CE Lothair II of Lotharingia King of Lotharingia from 855 to 869
No dates recorded 5
- Dates unrecorded Charles the Younger second son of Charlemagne
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Dates unrecorded Pepin the Hunchback Frankish prince, son of Charlemagne -
Dates unrecorded Louis II of Italy Ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 844 to 875 - Dates unrecorded Charles of Provence King of Provence
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Dates unrecorded Pepin I of Aquitaine 9th-century Frankish king
King of East Francia
- 5 holders
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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1st 843 CE – 876 CE Louis the German King of East Francia from 843 to 876 -
2nd 876 CE – 882 CE Louis III the Younger King of East Francia -
3rd 882 CE – 887 CE Charles the Fat Emperor of the Carolingian Empire (839-888) (r. 881-887) -
4th 887 CE – 899 CE Arnulf of Carinthia king of East Francia -
5th 900 CE – 911 CE Louis the Child King of East Francia and Lotharingia
Abbess
- 4 holders
- 1 overlap
- 1 gap
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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800 CE – 810 CE Gisela, Abbess of Chelles Roman Catholic nun and abbess -
Gap about 4 years before the next in this house
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Overlap held at the same time as Theodrada
No dates recorded 1
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Dates unrecorded Gisela Frankish noble, daughter of Louis the Pious
Duke of Bavaria
- 4 holders
- 4 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 4
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Dates unrecorded Charlemagne king of Franks, regarded as the first Holy Roman Emperor (747–814) (742-814) -
Dates unrecorded Louis the Pious King of the Franks -
Dates unrecorded Lothair I Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 817 to 855 -
Dates unrecorded Carloman of Bavaria King of Bavaria from 876 to 879
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How Carolingian dynasty connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: a date from its recorded time period. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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